Throughout the season the talented West Windsor-Plainsboro North player has added a bunch of followers.

Getting an unbelievable team effort up and down the field, the Knights took an 18-14 decision over a gritty Princeton team Thursday night in the Mercer County Tournament girls’ lacrosse semifinals played on the turf at Ewing.

The win sends North (15-0), the No. 2 seed, to the finals for the third straight year. A year ago it claimed its first championship with a win over Allentown.

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“The pressure is what makes it fun,” said Harpel. “That is why we are here. Everything we do is fighting for each other. It’s not about how many goals you get, or how many ground balls or what you do on defense. It’s about what you do to back up your teammates.”

North did an amazing job.

They used a three-goal spurt led by Alex Hendry in the first half to get the lead, then when the Tigers came back to tie the game at 12 in the second half they responded with four straight scores.

The run gave North a 16-12 advantage with 10:11 left in the game. The Tigers (13-3) pulled to 16-14 with 2:09 remaining, but the poise of the Knights survived.

“This was an all-out team effort,” said North coach Beth Serughetti. “We stayed composed. We got the draw controls and that was a key. This is very special because these girls are so great to be around.”

North spread the wealth around as Olivia had five goals and three assists, her sister, Carli, had five goals, Alex Hendry had four goals — all in the first half — and Morgan Hendry had a pair of goals, an assist and got several critical draw controls in the second half.

“I just wanted to go as hard as I could and win everything for my team,” said Morgan Hendry, just a freshman. “I can’t really put all this into words and to have the support that I do from my teammates is absolutely amazing.”

Julia Tampellini had a goal and an assist, Dani Siano added a goal and Alexa L’Insalata was huge in the cage with 13 saves.

Princeton, to its credit, never quit and played with a lot of pride and poise.

Emilia Lopez-Ona led the Tigers with seven goals and two assists, Liz Jacobs had four goals and several draw controls, Gabby Gibbons added four assists while Taylor Chiang, Dana Smith and Julia Ryan all had single scores.

“We came back in the last couple minutes and I’m proud of the girls,” said Princeton coach Kelsey O’Gorman. “We never got the consistent effort that we needed.”

In the end, there were too many Hendrys, too many L’Insalatas and too many Harpels for the Tigers to contend with, and because of the team effort, the Knights are headed back to the MCT finals.